Health care projects in South India

His Eminence the 7th Dzogchen Rinpoche, Jigme Losel Wangpo, rebuilt the reknowned 300 year old Dzogchen Monastery, in exile close to Kollegal and 180 km from Bangalore in Southern India according to the directions of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Work started in 1985 and the main temple and study college (shedra) was inaugurated in 1992 by His Holiness.

Dhondenling Tibetan settlement around the monastery was founded in 1974 by around 500 Tibetan refugees. Today, it has a population of around 7000 refugees in 22 villages and it is the 3rd largest such settlement in India and also the most remote, resulting in very poor infrastructure. The refugees live under simple conditions leading to a lack of hygiene and the spread of diseases like tuberculosis.

Gate Dzogchen Monastery

Henriette Müller has visited the settlement usually once or twice a year and offered voluntary work as a physician, for example in the Old Peoples’ Home which was opened in summer 2000 and in the Vidyadhara Healing Clinic which was established at the monastery to provide health care to the monks and the Tibetan and Indian villagers.

In the fall of 2003, a charitable society (Shenpen Deutschland e.V.) was founded in Berlin to support the Dzogchen Shri Senha Charitable Society which runs Dzogchen Rinpoche’s many projects aimed at improving living conditions for the refugees and to organize teachings.

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